I don’t work in your section, and be very, very glad I don’t. I have no idea how YOU got hired over all the other applicants (whose resumes I happend to see “accidentally-on-purpose”) but damn, boy, who did you blow to get your job?
Granted, we’re a state agency and yes, we do get the people no one else wants to hire. Sometimes they leave after a year or so but I get the horrible feeling you’re going to be one of the assmonkeys who stay forever.
Why have you pissed me off? Oh, let me count the ways…
You put “P.E” on the end of your signature even though your Professional Engineering licence has been lapsed for 2 years. TWO YEARS, you moron! Legally, you can’t put that at the end of your signature. And you know that. So why do you use the excuse that “well, I have a current on in PA” and not back it up? What, you think that Admin isn’t going to eventually find out that you’re doing this? Legally, you can’t do this. And you know it.
I get riled up about this because my husband busted his nut studying for the damned exam and has made an effort every single year to make sure he keeps his PE current. This twit makes excuses not to do shit to keep his up and not one lower level Admin is doing a thing about it. If he worked in the Real World and put “P.E.” after his sig on any document, he’d get a reaming. Or fired.
You treat clerical staff members and women co-workers like shit. You started your little head games with me till you found out who I’m married to, and then all of a sudden you want to be my best friend. Nope, nada, no bloody way. I hear all the time from the other secretaries about how mean and snotty you are to them and don’t think for a second that I’m not going to forget this.
Oh yeah, and calling a female supervisor (not yours) an “opportunistic lezzie hobag” in certain people’s hearing was witnessed and will be remembered.
If you EVER try to start shit about my husband (and I won’t go into it here) with his bosses, you will have ME to answer to. daHubby isn’t one for making people pay for what they say or do to them, but I am. I will have your head on a pike.
Actually you have to be careful when you use it even if you have your P.E.
The Professional Engineering licenses are issued by state, so you have to be careful if you are representing yourself as a P.E. within a state in which you are not licensed.
One firm I was associated with warned their Engineers to make sure that their business cards either omitted the P.E. or stated the specific state in which the P.E. was held. My supervisor told me that he knew a situation where an engineer was cited for advertising himself as a P.E. in Texas when his license was from another state.
In any case, your A-Hole Cow-Worker is putting the company at risk if he is using that signature on company letterhead.
Well, seeing as we’re a state agency, I don’t think anyone will realize it until his asshattery gets us in trouble big time.
What burns me so much is the people that have busted their asses to get their PE’s and this moron comes along and says he’s one even though his licence has lapsed. I know if I’d done all the work and passed the test and knew he was pulling this shit I’d have his job.
If your husband pulls any weight there (and it sounds like he does), can’t he do something to straighten this guy out? Illegal is illegal. You’d be lax to not report it, no?
Report him to his professional association. They take a very dim view of people claiming to be PE’s when they are not. They’ll likely reprimand him and levy a hefty fine.
I would swear you work with my father, except that his PE licenses are from AL, MS, GA, FL, and TN*. No PA. Every female he’s worked with has had similar complaints of his snippy attitude, and he’s downright mean to many of his coworkers. He’s been sacked from more than one firm for losing his temper, once even calling a client a “stupid Canadian cocksucker” in a bid meeting.
AFAIK, there is a rather stiff fine for (getting caught) claiming a PE when you haven’t kept it current. It can also damage the company’s legal standing and reputation. I would think that such considerations would be even more damaging to a state agency.
Sometimes, it just feels good to tattle on dickheads.
OK, so this reminds me of that routine about memorizing someone’s name. Say you meet someone named Dorothy Snowdon. Picture Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz with a pile of snow on her head. The next time you see her, I don’t care if it’s ten years from now, you can walk right up to her and say, “Good to see you, Toto Slushhead!”